Help with Running Headers

[Art Campbell]

Actually, you can set the contents of $volnum to hold user-specified
text, which is the method I was thinking of using... Then just plug it
in either to the user variable, or into the header.

Art

On Nov 13, 2007 1:38 PM, Combs, Richard <richard.combs at polycom.com> wrote:
> David Kuhn wrote:
>
> > I tried to insert a Running Header 5, just changing the
> > definition that exists from <$paratext[H1_Heading1]> to
> > <$paratext[Part]>.
> >
> > There is already a Part paragraph format defined, but it
> > exists only in the Part document type, not the Chapter document type.
> >
> > But when I switch from the Master Pages view to the Body
> > Pages view, this line does not appear at all.
>
> There's no such thing in FM as a "Part document type," there are only
> chapters (.fm files) and books (.book files). If you're putting the Part
> title page in its own chapter (.fm file), then the paratext from its
> pgfs isn't available in subsequent chapter files. In order for the
> Running H/F in a chapter file to display the text of a Part pgf, that
> pgf must be in the file.
>
> As Art noted, you can use the Volume Number variable for your part
> numbers. But if you want to display a part title in all the chapters in
> that part, you'll have to use a workaround (listed in descending order
> of preference, IMHO, and excluding my first choice, which would be not
> to do this at all):
>
> -- Create a Part Name user variable, with a different definition for the
> chapters in each part.
>
> -- Use a cross-reference to the Part pgf in the headers, with different
> xrefs (and thus master pages) for the chapters in each part.
>
> -- Create a tiny, invisible (white text) pgf containing the part name
> somewhere in each chapter file.
>
> -- Put all the chapters in a part into the same FM chapter (.fm) file,
> and use old-style (pre-v.6) numbering for chapter numbers.
>
> HTH!
> Richard
>
>
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